ML/AI

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. Microsoft Releases R Server 9.0 On the Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog, Microsoft announces Release 9.0 of Microsoft R Server, a bundle of components built on an enhanced R distribution. Highlights of the new release include: — MicrosoftML, a package of machine learning algorithms — Simplified model

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. Good Reads — McKinsey consultants Christoph Glatzel, Matt Hopkins, Tim Lange, and Uwe Weiss explain how retailers use machine learning to drive fresh food stocking. — In IEEE Spectrum, Deliang Wang explains how his lab at OSU uses deep learning to improve hearing aids. People — Unity

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. On Thursday, December 8, Databricks’ Joseph Bradley and Jules Damji will deliver a webinar on migrating Spark ML workloads to DataFrames. Good Reads — On the Algorithmia blog, Matt Kiser explains why deep learning matters. — In The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, Sara Castellanos reports on

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. On the AtScale blog, some old guy says BI-on-Hadoop is dead. People — The folks at DataCamp recognize the five top R package maintainers: Hadley Wickham (ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr,…) Yihui Xie (knitr, bookdown, rmarkdown, shiny, htmlwidgets,…) Dirk Eddelbuettel (Rcpp, RPostgreSQL,…) Jeroen Ooms (jsonlite, xml2,…) Achim Zeileis (colorspace,

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. ZDNet has a special section on AI and machine learning. I’ve pulled some of the interesting pieces and linked them in the appropriate sections below. Issues — In Data Science Central, William Vorhies asks: has AI gone too far?  The context of his question is a paper

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. Events — Spark Summit East meets in Boston February 7-9 2017. AWS Launches AI Services Amazon Web Services launches three new services: Amazon Rekognition, an image recognition capability Amazon Polly, for text-to-speech Amazon Lex, a chatbot development platform A massive medialanche ensues. Serdar Yegualp applauds. In TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois touts

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. Events — Spark Summit East meets in Boston February 7-9 2017. Good Reads — From Moor Insights & Strategy, an excellent paper on trends in predictive maintenance, a key application for machine learning. (Update: A reader notes that this is a sponsored paper, which is true, but I have

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) content from the past 24 hours. Events — Spark Summit East will meet in Boston February 7-9 2017. Good Reads — In The Next Platform, Nicole Hemsoth explains why Microsoft invests in FPGAs for compute-intensive applications like machine learning. Separately, Nicole investigates Intel’s strategy to integrate the deep learning assets it acquired when it